Quotes About Maturity

It is both the intention and the capability (love-food) that is necessary to sustain a small person in growth toward maturity. Parental mistreatment, that is, the absence of parental love, causes the child psychic pain. These traumatic episodes are later partially or totally repressed, but the scars of these early wounds play a significant part in the everyday life

For emotionally mature individuals, on the other hand, a mutual commitment that expresses a desire to be associated with another person throughout life can be a positive expression of deep feeling rather than an attempt to find "ultimate" security.

She looked sad, asleep. Just like Dad. (Maggi wondered if all adults looked sad, asleep.)

Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.

Uno piensa que con el paso de los años se va a volver más sapiente y criterioso, que va a ser como el viejo que le enseñaba a Kung Fu: el sabio. Pero es mentira, con el fútbol estoy cada vez más intolerante y maniático.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Your age is not what walks in first; it's who you are, what you've done, and what you offer.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

I wasn't being fair to expect those things of him. But life wasn't fair. Life does not wait for any of us to grow up.

I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.

There can be much more to a decision than you can know at this stage of your life.

A boy is a man when he proves himself to be one, but a girl is a woman when she desires to be one.

Sometimes, when one goes back to the scene of one's childhood, things seem smaller. What was mysterious and the sole province of adults suddenly seems commonplace and mundane when viewed with mature eyes.

I was thirty-five that year. When I was twenty, I would have considered a man of my current age to be teetering on the verge of dotage. These days, it seemed neither young nor old to me, but a suspension between the two.

What would you have thought of me, when you were younger, if I'd gone out whoring at night, or brought women up to the room? How would you see women now? Or men?

Is there anything more chilling than looking at a righteous fifteen-year-old and realizing he has the power to unravel your entire life?

Truly, the girl had grown up. Althea recalled ashamedly that she had once felt that some hardship would improve Malta. Undoubtedly she had been improved, but the cost had been high.

I'm too old to do this sort of thing anymore. No. You only wish you were.

A man has to set limits on his magic and on himself. Setting limits is part of being a man.

I think I made a better boy than I do man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

Once you are a father, you have to try to be a better man than you truly are.

Some old warriors are like good weapons. Their scars become the patina of experience and wisdom.